a. [f. L. locō (see LOCOMOTIVE) + mōtōrius having the function of movement: see MOTORY.] Pertaining to or having the power of locomotion.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 701/2. Whatever the form of the locomotory organ … it is always organized in the same manner.
1892. R. L. Stevenson, Across the Plains, 292. To what passes with the anchored vermin [sc. plants], we have little clue…. But of the locomotory, to which we ourselves belong, we can tell more.
